This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/vmwgfx: Remove getparam error message to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-vmwgfx-remove-getparam-error-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 53e16798b0864464c5444a204e1bb93ae246c429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:06:05 +0200 Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Remove getparam error message From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 53e16798b0864464c5444a204e1bb93ae246c429 upstream. The mesa winsys sometimes uses unimplemented parameter requests to check for features. Remove the error message to avoid bloating the kernel log. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ioctl.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ioctl.c @@ -114,8 +114,6 @@ int vmw_getparam_ioctl(struct drm_device param->value = dev_priv->has_dx; break; default: - DRM_ERROR("Illegal vmwgfx get param request: %d\n", - param->param); return -EINVAL; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/drm-vmwgfx-remove-getparam-error-message.patch queue-4.9/drm-vmwgfx-type-check-lookups-of-fence-objects.patch queue-4.9/drm-vmwgfx-fix-integer-overflow-in-vmw_surface_define_ioctl.patch queue-4.9/drm-ttm-drm-vmwgfx-relax-permission-checking-when-opening-surfaces.patch